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Therapeutic Horticulture Portal
Horticultural therapy is a dynamic intervention that uses nature-based activities to promote learning and healing. This website was designed to serve participants and their families, volunteers interested in supporting programs, interns seeking professional certification as well as professionals and service providers interested in offering therapeutic horticulture opportunities.

Therapeutic Hort Portal[/caption]
Therapeutic Horticulture Portal
Horticultural therapy is a dynamic intervention that uses nature-based activities to promote learning and healing. This website was designed to serve participants and their families, volunteers interested in supporting programs, interns seeking professional certification as well as professionals and service providers interested in offering therapeutic horticulture opportunities.

Check out the Map of Public Gardens on the NCSU Gardening Portal
* Click on a marker for detailed information about that garden.
* Use the zoom tool on the left to focus in on a particular area or to view a larger area.
* Click and drag to reposition the view.
* Click a type of garden in the key to view only gardens of that type.
* Scroll down below the full size map for an alphabetical listing of gardens.

Since 1979 North Carolina Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers have been guiding homeowners in making environmentally sound decisions in their gardens, lawns and landscapes.
Extension Master Gardener volunteers work with NC Cooperative Extension to provide gardeners with unbiased, research based information on gardens, lawns and landscapes.
Under the guidance of Extension agents, volunteers complete a 40 hour training program, pass an examination, and complete a 40 hour internship. To remain active in the program volunteers must log a minimum of 20 hours of volunteer service and 12 hours of continuing education each year.
Seventy three counties offer the Extension Master Gardener program and there are currently over 4,000 active Extension Master Gardener volunteers. Go to NCEMGV.org for information on how EMGVs can help you, how you can become and NC EMGV, and how you can support the program.

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantbiology/ncsc/Coastal_Planting_Guide.pdf
Funded by the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and developed through a collaboration between the US Fish & Wildlife Service and researchers at the North Carolina State University Herbarium, as well as numerous partners, including the Beach Vitex Task Force, the North Carolina, Aquarium, and Sea Grant.
To request a hard copy, please contact:Dale Suiter (USFWS)
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantbiology/ncsc/Coastal_Planting_Guide.pdf[/caption]

Recent snow and ice storms have caused extensive damage to trees. Consider hiring a certified arborist to help assess the damage and prune or remove trees. See NC Cooperative Extension publication How to Hire MORE »Posted: Today

NCSU’s 16th Vermiculture Conference August 10-11, 2015, Raleigh, NC LOCATION: NC State University at the Hunt Library (ranked Second Most Amazing College Library in the U.S.A) WEBSITE: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/workshops/worm_conference Currently contains information from last year’s conference MORE »Posted: Today

Check out this wonderful tool for diagnosing problems with strawberry plants. Check off symptoms that you have seen and narrow the list of potential causes. A great tool for troubleshooting in the MORE »Posted: 2/13/15

The Eighth Annual Growing In Place Symposium: Green Neighborhood Assets: Streets, Houses, Schools, Parks, Food. March 5, 2015 at the Marbles Kids Museum, Raleigh, NC Families with children not wanting to move to low-density MORE »Posted: 2/13/15

Kicking off with a tour of Orchid Trail greenhouses. The Winter meeting of the Carolinas Horticulture Therapy Network convened at JC Raulston Arboretum. For more information on the network see our facebook MORE »– from Therapeutic HorticulturePosted: 2/8/15

Temperatures may still be brisk but it is already time to start planning and planting your spring vegetable garden. Garden peas and their relatives, snow peas and sugar snaps, are among the earliest MORE »– from Chatham County CenterPosted: 1/28/15

Get all the dirt on edible community, school and child care gardens, urban ag and growing greener, friendlier communities! Registration is open! How do you start a community garden—at church, at work, in your MORE »Posted: 1/26/15

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